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Friday briefing: The Bank of England interest rate cut suggests there are more gloomy times ahead
Good morning. As anticipated, on
Thursday the Bank of England cut UK interest rates from 4.75% to 4.5%
, their lowest level since June 2023. The cut, the third in six months, will affect mortgages, loans and savings, and offer some relief to borrowers.The Bank’s monetary policy …
One year to the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics: Twenty athletes from Team USA to watch
1-2) Madison Chock and Evan Bates
Figure skating
The longtime ice dance partners, together on skates from 2011 and married since last year, finally broke through for
their first world championship
after years of near-misses in 2023, thenwent back-to-back last year
in their adopted hometown …Patrick Mahomes and Olympic flag football hopeful they can bury hatchet
Both men are in New Orleans as the city prepares for Sunday’s Super Bowl, where …
Unambiguously bleak Bank of England forecasts pave way for spending cuts
Thursday briefing: The outlandish plan to turn Gaza into a ‘riviera of the Middle East’
Parts of Japan blanketed by thick snow during strongest cold front for years
Large parts of Japan have been blanketed with snow, as the lowest temperatures this winter disrupted rail and air travel, amid warnings that more heavy snowfall was expected through the weekend.
Residents struggled to dig out cars that had been buried by snow in just a few hours, with the …
Ukraine war briefing: Bomber dies in attack on army recruitment centre
A person died setting off an explosion at an army recruitment centre in western Ukraine on Wednesday, officials said
, amid a string of attacks against the mobilisation effort. The explosion at the Kamianets-Podilsky recruitment centre wounded four other people, said Sergiy Tyurin, the regional administrator. Ukrainian police said …
Aga Khan dies with mystery of Shergar kidnapping still unsolved
Aga Khan IV, who bred and owned the magnificent, ill-starred Derby winner, Shergar, among dozens of champions to carry his famous green and red colours over the course of six decades in the sport, has died at the age of 88.
Shergar was the most emphatic Derby winner in the …
AI ‘godfather’ predicts another revolution in the tech in next five years
One of the “godfathers” of modern artificial intelligence has predicted a further revolution in the technology by the end of the decade because current systems are too limited to create domestic robots and fully automated cars.
Yann LeCun, the chief AI scientist at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, said new breakthroughs are …